Love Island’s Samantha Kenny ‘dating TOWIE star’ and OMG

She was dumped from the Love Island 2024 villa when Joey Essex recoupled with Grace Jackson

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by Eden-Olivia Lord |
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Oh how we love a reality TV crossover and it looks like Love Island's Samantha Kenny is involved in the latest one as rumour has it the series 11 star is dating TOWIE fitlord Pete Wicks.

They first sparked rumours a few weeks ago when they were papped together outside London restaurant Amazonico but it's now been reported that they've been seeing each other.

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let's get samantha on towie, shall we? ©ITV

'Pete and Samantha have gone on a few dates and have really hit it off.

'She’s got a wicked sense of humour and is absolutely gorgeous,' a source told The Sun.

This wouldn't be the first time Samantha has dated a Essex boy, in fact, it's not even the first time she's dated a TOWIE star as she hit it off with Joey Essex on Love Island last year.

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pete's apparently moved on from maura ©Dave Benett/Getty Images

Unfortunately it wasn't meant to be and after two weeks together, Joey's ex Grace Jackson arriving and them heading to the VIP sleepover and snogging in a pool, it all came crumbling to an end with the Essex star and Samantha.

She broke down in tears and was dumped from the villa but Samantha managed to get her revenge when all the Islanders returned to vote out a couple just before the final and Joey and Jessy Potts were dumped.

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samantha got her revenge in the end ©ITV

Samantha moving on with Pete comes shortly after he split from fellow Islander and ex Maura Higgins. While neither of them have spoken out about the split, she did hint that things ended badly.

After a night out with pals, a pap asked Maura about Pete's whereabouts and she said, 'I don't know, probably cheating.'

Ouch.

Fast forward a few weeks and the Love Island 2019 star was filmed kissing her I'm A Celeb co-star Danny Jones.

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Eden-Olivia is the deputy editor of heatworld and she’s worked in showbiz since 2016. She started watching Love Island in 2017 because of her job. However Montana Brown remaining unphased by absolutely everything kept her entertained and she’s watched every series since.

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